Sunday, July 26, 2015

Fact: The Qur'an was dictated by Allah to Muhammad (according to the legend) in 609 CE. However, Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 BCE – c. 195/194 BCE) already knows that the Earth was a sphere and even calculated it with reasonable accuracy (just by using 2 sticks). Also, most Greek scholars by the time of Aristotle (384–322 BCE) already agreed that Earth was a sphere (see: Arist. Cael. 297 b25-298 a8) The Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Thales already knows that too. In fact, Cicero attributed to Thales the earliest construction of a solid celestial globe (Rep. I.XIII.22).

Allah and Muhammad were too late for the claim.

Fiction:

Facts: Luckily for us, this was already known before Muhammad. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) for example understood that the light coming from the moon was reflected light from the Sun.

Anaxagoras (510 – 428 BCE) a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, was the first to explain that the moon shines due to reflected light from the Sun. He believed that the sun is a mass of fiery metal, and the moon is an earthy lump (with no light of its own). That's even before Aristotle.

Fiction:

Fact: The Greeks also beat Allah and Muhammad for that claim. Thales of Miletus (624 – c. 546 BCE) originally said that. According to Thales, 'it' is the nature, the archê, the originating principle. For Thales, this nature was a single material substance, water.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Mahiya ka naman Zion Inting Dindo. Have you no shame? Lying for Jesus again? Why do you need to say that the picture was about a woman who rose from the dead to tell her children about Jesus? The picture you just stole was about the Indonesian ritual called manner, which means "cleaning of the corpse."